The following are hereby declared as Group 1, Category A hazardous substances, namely:—
| (a) | All industrial substances listed in Annexure lll of the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Concerned Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (https://www.pic.int/TheConvention/Chemicals/AnnexlllChemicals) with allowed uses in the country and subject to paragraph 3; |
| (b) | Mercury and mercury compounds allowed for uses as prescribed in the Minamata Convention on Mercury; and |
| (c) | Any industrial substance or mixture of substances, products or materials which in the course of customary or reasonable handling or use, including ingestion, by reason of its; |
| (i) | acute toxicity oral,skin or inhalation, category 1 or 2 or; |
| (ii) | carcinogenicity, category 1, 1A or 1B or; |
| (iii) | reproductive toxicity 1 category 1, 1A or 1B or; |
| (iv) | germ cell mutagenicity, category 1A or 1B or; |
| (v) | specific target organ toxicity-single exposure (STOT-SE), category 1 or; |
| (vi) | specific target organ toxicity-repeated exposure (STOT-RE), category 1; |
listed as harmonised in the Classificatlon and Labelling Inventory obtainable from the ECHA web site, https://echa.europa.eu and classified according to the hazard classification prescribed in the latest version of the *United Nations UNGHS.
